Love to be grateful (??) we canceled our vacation to France because of my husband's recovery from hip surgery so we get to be here to put my cat down. 2026 can kick rocks, quite frankly!!!

Loudest chant at this Jays-Sox game is "No Scotland, no party" and it is just as joyful as you'd imagine. That and a Vladdy homer?? I am set.

...to be clear, American conservative right is a much graver danger to good public education. But as long as their opposition (left, democrats, whatever) sees education primarily as a mechanism for workforce development, measured by mass testing and highly prescriptive curricula, both can be bad.

This is the World Cup content I'm here for.

Having an increasingly hard time living in a society with people who are clearly just fucking stupid.

The BBC's own reporting includes the fact that hundreds of masked fascists yelled 'foreigners out' and yet the story is about how 'one MP says people targeted based on skin colour.' It's just that one MP is saying it. It's not that that's literally what happened. bsky.app/profile/chad...

"In a few days, the World Cup will be held again. The last one cost me my freedom, and this one has already cost me my passport, my safety, and who knows what is yet to come." Qatar 2022 whistleblower Abdullah Ibhais writes ahead of the 2026 tournament www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Call me an idealist, but I think that a prerequisite for hosting an international sport event should be that you're willing to host an international sport event.

Someone go get my dream job!

“The billionaires will never find happiness from their money. The colonizers will never find fulfillment from the land and lives they steal. The fascists will never find meaning.” — Ali Louis Bourzgui

when a baseball game hits the three-hour mark in the 6th inning

very few memes getting as much mileage as this one

it's bad that the Secretary of Defense of the US is a nazi

To our dismay, the artist and author Marjane Satrapi has passed away. As she wrote, ordinary Americans and Iranians have more in common with each other than we do with either of our governments, which have far too much in common with each other. We honor her memory and oppose the war.

RIP Marjane Satrapi

crazy that under the precedent set by callais, a lily-white congressional delegation formed by "partisan" gerrymandering in a plurality black state passes constitutional muster, while any majority-minority district is constitutionally suspect

the one thing these people cannot countenance is being Accurately Described. all of this is happening because the internet provided a means for people to Accurately Describe them to their faces. and they lost their fucking minds

Student just said in final discussion that he and a friend always joke that if they don't know the answer on a test they just pick the one that is basically like "the U.S. is bad" lollllll

We could’ve had a green new deal for schools, but no, we get this

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Good news! You live in a movie. Bad news: CHILDREN OF MEN

Rashida Tlaib is forcing a vote on a Lebanon-centered War Powers Resolution later this week which would, if passed, require that the US end all intelligence sharing and other coordinated activities with the Israeli army related to Lebanon and its sovereignty within 7 days. Tell your rep to vote YES

"There’s the famous saying that when you’re a carpenter, every problem looks like a nail. I guess when a rising politician centers her brand on her time as a Navy helicopter pilot, every crisis starts to look like Iraq."

There’s a shortage of slapping the shit out of people and we need a market correction on that.

As horrifying as this campaign of premeditated murder is, what might be even more disturbing is the utter indifference of Congress, the public and our allies to such a shocking and unapologetic obliteration of the many laws and norms against targeting civilians. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/31/w...

Happy Pride month you buncha queers

NEW: A lot of bad has happened to American science over the last year but nothing comes even close to what’s about to happen if we don’t speak out in opposition to the OMB rule changes and I hope @aaas-socsci.bsky.social @apsphysics.bsky.social and others will launch public campaigns about this. 🧪🔭⚛️

my question is: who's saying this publicly, so far?

Anywho let me get back to work. I actually LIKE being a leftist. I'm not embarrassed by the Left(s). I'm not apologetic. I think we should be loud about our ideas and our programs. They are the right ideas.

my new thing is, if you use gen AI i am simply better than you. smarter and less lazy, obviously, but also prettier and more fun to hang out with. your pets like me better than you and your parents wish i was their kid instead. because fuck you

Wrong to the point of malpractice

I have a new piece out Reflecting on 20 years of migrant struggles, it goes into what abolish ICE does - and doesn't - mean; merging of immigration enforcement with policing & military power; and how fascism is made through bordering. Despite resisting it for so long, I also now define the border.

Tired: mentioning any of the right-wing nonsense about Nolan's upcoming The Odyssey adaptation Wired: immediately reading and discussing Paige Lewis's debut novel Canon (a nonbinary epic)

just to make this clear, trans people are being killed in increasing numbers, women, men, nonbinary or gender nonconforming, in the United States. this is happening and cis people seemingly don’t even realize (presuming they are open to caring, which many are fairly skeptical of that possibility).

UC Berkeley Law creates new AI policy that bans AI for "conceptualizing, outlining, drafting, revising, translating, or editing any work submitted for credit" or exams because "thinking remains the sine qua non of good lawyering (and of a quality legal education)." That's what I'm talking about.

Every day there’s some new reminder of how much shit is being loudly dumped into a big pit of institutional transphobia with full support of the just asking questions w reasonable concern audience.

The message shouldn't be "taxes are bad," it should be that you should get something for them, it's your money, it shouldn't be going to some rich dipshit's Dr. Claw-ass ballroom or into the pockets of J6 child molesters

With the caveat that tech exists that is very helpful to students with disabilities and their teachers, the headline here tells the story of AI mania in schools: AI is being deployed in lieu of what kids need: teachers who have appropriate workloads because the profession can attract enough talent.

the fuck it will

Thinking of starting next school year by writing "words mean things" on the board and just...working with that for a little while.

it's cool that the president is trying to steal two billion dollars from my taxes to give to his pedophile friends and i'm supposed to like keep doing my job or whatever

The one-two punch of your alarm going off in the middle of a REM cycle and immediately reading that one of your favorite authors used AI to write her next novel. I would like to NOT do this Tuesday, I think.

Hey so if you're in the USA, the FCC is floating the idea of making shows put a warning up if they include or discuss trans people and trans lives. A short paragraph saying this is messed up would help a lot! You gpt less than a week. Submit your comment by May 22: www.fcc.gov/ecfs/filings...

Not nearly enough reporting about what's happening in Cuba, which the administration is attempting to squeeze, punish, and coerce into submission and violent self destruction. This is so much worse than the embargo. It's hideous. Haiti, Cuba, ongoing boat strike murders: anti-Black foreign policy

This month is truly trying to kill me, but at least I have seen a hummingbird and the lilacs are starting to come in.

Sincere credulousness toward every shiny thing somehow became the most important qualification for important jobs requiring judgment, discernment, and leadership — to the absolute detriment of the people laboring below them, holding the mission together in their day to day work.

Being competent at anything is truly a curse in so many ways. I need some of these other people to be competent. Like...any of them, even.

my favorite genre of international dialogue

Let's just abolish both the Dems and the GOP.